The NYPD puts an electronic billboard at the intersection where 32-year-old cyclist Gelacio Reyes was killed in a hit-and-run collision at 39th Street and 43rd Avenue in Sunnyside. (Photo credit: Bill Parry)

A 32-year old married father of three cycling home to Corona, NY on April 2 was struck and killed by an alleged drunk and unlicensed driver in Sunnyside, police said.

John Mallery, owner of Mallery's Auto Body Inc., announced that his shop has been certified by Assured Performance, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that oversees standards in the auto body shop.

Mallery’s Auto Body Inc. in Olean, NY has been certified by Assured Performance, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization “for maintaining the right tools, equipment, training and facility necessary to repair the participating automaker-brand vehicles according to the manufacturer’s specifications.”

With 2017 marking AASP/NJ's 40th Annual NORTHEAST Conference and Tradeshow, it comes as no surprise that this year's event, held at the Meadowlands Exposition Center on March 17-19, was bigger and better than ever with a handful of firsts.

Attorney General Joseph A. Foster announced that his office brought a consumer protection enforcement action against Platinum Auto Brokers, Inc., formerly located in Nashua, now doing business as Derry Auto Brokers.

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Mike Berounsky, left, and Jason Berounsky are fourth generation owners and operators of Ben's Auto Body on Mirona Road in Portsmouth, now in its 85th year as an independent collision repair shop. (Photo credit: Paul Briand)

In January 1932, Herbert Hoover was president of the United States, the average cost of a new car was about $600, and Ben Berounsky established the roots of an auto body repair shop on Rogers Street.